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i'll let carla finish. >> this next slide represents our next steps. over the last 6 months a core group of us have been doing significant community outreach. we've given over 21 presentations and of those 21, 11 were targeted specifically at disability and senior advocacy groups and boards and commissions. just to give you a flavor, we've been before the mayor's disability council, the muni modal accessibility advisory council, the department of aging and adult services committee, the long-term care coordinating council, we made a presentation at the independent living resource center, the paratransit coordinating council, we had two public forums, one ever them was hosted by the fdr democratic club and another was hosted down at the sfmta and the mayor's office on disability. we've been to the aging and adult services commission, alameda county services commission, senior mobility workshop. but outreach is on-going. what we've been using this time to do really is to gather some constructive comments. let me talk briefly about the next steps. the mta
i'll let carla finish. >> this next slide represents our next steps. over the last 6 months a core group of us have been doing significant community outreach. we've given over 21 presentations and of those 21, 11 were targeted specifically at disability and senior advocacy groups and boards and commissions. just to give you a flavor, we've been before the mayor's disability council, the muni modal accessibility advisory council, the department of aging and adult services committee, the...
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. >> good afternoon, chair nolan and board members and director riskin, my name is carla johnson and i am the interim director at the mayor's office on disability and our role is to service the city's overall ada compliance officer to make sure all our city services, programs and facilities are accessible as required under the ada and we consider parking to be just another program. we are here to share with you the recommendations from the accessible parking committee. this is a committee co-chaired by myself and ed risk rib, your director. with me today is going to be a co-presentor, bob planthold, many of you know bob already. bob is a disability advocate and also pedestrian safety advocate and a transportation advocate and we'll be doing our presentation together. we're going to start out with a short video. this is a video that will be available on the mta web site at sfmta.com/parking access. i'm hoping our captioner can keep up with us today but i know the version on the web site is also captioned. with that, we'll turn it over to the video. >> if making accessible parking work
. >> good afternoon, chair nolan and board members and director riskin, my name is carla johnson and i am the interim director at the mayor's office on disability and our role is to service the city's overall ada compliance officer to make sure all our city services, programs and facilities are accessible as required under the ada and we consider parking to be just another program. we are here to share with you the recommendations from the accessible parking committee. this is a committee...
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. >> hi, i'm carla. >> nice to see you. >> [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> it is called patty murray, the stupidest person in america. [laughter] you're going to get the book now and find out. oh! didn't you hold a mic for me once? >> i fended off lesbians for you. >> you did. okay. i'm going to get to my book signing. nice to meet you. you'll meet me more at the book signing. i'm going to the book signing. come to the book signing. yep. >> [inaudible] enter hi, how are you? lori wagner, i work at the federal i'm sorry society. >> oh, you do? oh, that's great. >> thank you. >> jean. >> exactly. >> oh, i have to go by there again. i so miss our centralist -- federalist -- >> you should come next week. >> november 14th. >> okay, that's when the restoration weekend is, the david horowitz thing, and that is in palm beach. [laughter] >> a little more tempting than d.c. i don't know if i could trouble you for a photo. >> yeah, lean in. oh, you're going to take it? >> absolutely. how do i get a copy of this? >> just take it with her. >> it's this right here. >> thank you
. >> hi, i'm carla. >> nice to see you. >> [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> it is called patty murray, the stupidest person in america. [laughter] you're going to get the book now and find out. oh! didn't you hold a mic for me once? >> i fended off lesbians for you. >> you did. okay. i'm going to get to my book signing. nice to meet you. you'll meet me more at the book signing. i'm going to the book signing. come to the book signing. yep....
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special correspondent carla repor reports. >> reporter: it's a moment millions of americans wait for each week. >> let's see if we can make you a millionaire tonight. >> reporter: the chance to win a huge, life-changing amount of money. >> a check for $10,000. >> reporter: but now, some states are experimenting with a different kind of lottery, one where you won't necessarily win but you can't lose. it's something called a price linked saving account and 27-year-old crystal rose huddle son was increased by a poster for one when she walked into a local credit union this year. >> it had a girl that was cute, cute clothes and hair and had this sign up, just need $25 and i thought, what is this? >> reporter: it was for a savings program called save to win. for every $25 put in their account, they could win prizes, one of $5,000 next spring. if you don't win, you get to keep the money, plus interest. the prize money is put up by the credit unions and the regional association as an incentive to get members to save. the idea is new to the u.s. but been around for decades all over the world.
special correspondent carla repor reports. >> reporter: it's a moment millions of americans wait for each week. >> let's see if we can make you a millionaire tonight. >> reporter: the chance to win a huge, life-changing amount of money. >> a check for $10,000. >> reporter: but now, some states are experimenting with a different kind of lottery, one where you won't necessarily win but you can't lose. it's something called a price linked saving account and...
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with regard to -- and that's something we'll monitor the effectiveness of, as carla suggested, it is very time consuming and labor intensive, but feedback we heard from people concerned about these recommendations is that you really should try to increase enforcement, to educate people about enforcement, before you do some of these other things. so i think it's a reasonable step forward. with regard to increased blue zones, two things. one is what we committed to doing is creating the equivalent to what we have for the public right of way in terms of an ad a transmission plan, a path for how we would get to an increased number of blue zones, how we would prioritize them, define them. the committee recommended we work with the mayor's office on disability on looking at how we restrict locations for blue zones which were quite restrictive now as a city, maybe loosening that restriction. also i don't think we mentioned in the presentation that we're going to change the requirements to 4 percent. we're starting to prepare for new requirements we believe to be coming to us any way. we hav
with regard to -- and that's something we'll monitor the effectiveness of, as carla suggested, it is very time consuming and labor intensive, but feedback we heard from people concerned about these recommendations is that you really should try to increase enforcement, to educate people about enforcement, before you do some of these other things. so i think it's a reasonable step forward. with regard to increased blue zones, two things. one is what we committed to doing is creating the...
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we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the c
we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what...